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by thg 9y ago
Discussion from a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12620468
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by thg 9y ago
> They want all the data cloned in Russia so that they can spy on Russians and non Russians alike. So, the Russian equivalent of what the NSA has been doing the last 20 years? I find it far more likely that this is a sensible move to pro
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Spain Fines Facebook Over Tracking Users Without Consent(tomshardware.com)
645 points by thg 9y ago|193 comments
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by thg 9y ago
It depends on what you find enjoyable. If you find mining asteroids or mission running enjoyable, all the power to you. But that's not the way EVE is portrayed in news articles. Articles are about the betrayals, the massive battles, th
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by thg 9y ago
> I don't know how true that sentiment is, but it certainly feels that way. Of course, it's always possible we're just a bunch of really biased bittervets. I'm a very bitter vet myself, so take it with a grain of salt
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by thg 9y ago
> don't expect to find 100% objective reporting anywhere. Especially not there. imperium.news is a propaganda website first and a news website second.
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by thg 9y ago
http://evenews24.com/ EVE is a lot more fun to read about than it is to play it. You aren't missing all that much by not playing it...
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by thg 9y ago
Classic gigX.. Not the first time he's got a "permanent" ban for making real life threats.. More background story is available here: http://evenews24.com/2017/09/12/breaking-news-co2-loses-cont.
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by thg 9y ago
The AfD is a rebranding effort of the NPD to get rid of their direct Nazi / Hitler / WW2 past. The sad thing is that it appears to be working, albeit only marginally for now.
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by thg 9y ago
Not the OP. While systemd isn't all bad and in some ways for sure an improvement over init (not that that is hard), there are also very questionable architectural decisions that have been made in systemd. Next up you have the attitude
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by thg 9y ago
The thing is that it will be nigh impossible for you to prove that Google didn't just set a flag to hide your data from public view, but still has and uses it (e.g. to target you with advertising). There are no repercussions to not abi
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by thg 9y ago
I have never seen anything fill up a vacuum so fast and still suck. -- Rob Pike, on X Steve Jobs said two years ago that X is brain-damaged and it will be gone in two years. He was half right. -- Dennis Ritchie Dennis Ritchie is twice as b
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by thg 9y ago
You get a CD with every conversation you ever had, every picture you uploaded, everything you shared on that wall. "Deleted" or not, it's on there. Pretty much every interaction you ever had while browsing Facebook. Nothing a
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Seaweed could help fighting climate change(futurism.com)
4 points by thg 9y ago|0 comments
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by thg 9y ago
> “He doesn’t have to go around the world,” said Nicole. “He should learn what’s happening in this city.” The journalists probably wouldn't notice and thus there would be no (noteworthy) PR and thus no reason to do it. But now tha
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by thg 9y ago
- European colonization of America (you know, all those Native Americans that still have to live in shitty conditions), - Roman conquerors, - Serbian conquerors, - Holy Land crusades, - Nazi holocaust.. The list goes on and on. And it alway
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by thg 9y ago
> It is unconscionable we do not contact these people and bring them basics like modern medicine and education about proper hygiene. And destroy their culture and way of living in the process? Why? We don't have any right to force
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by thg 9y ago
https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bbankg/__14.html " Auf Euro lautende Banknoten sind das einzige unbeschränkte gesetzliche Zahlungsmittel. " Online shops allow you to pay cash through payment on delivery (N
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by thg 9y ago
Cash is the only unrestricted currency in Germany. Law demands that they have to accept it.
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by thg 9y ago
> Yeah, because what happens in America doesn't affect anyone else... You can say the same about almost every other nation on this planet. Where are the outrages against Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, France, Great Britain, ...?
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by thg 9y ago
> I guess I'm just a little annoyed that Americans think their Internet experience somehow represents 'the' Internet experience. Isn't that their stance on pretty much everything? If it's not a US problem, they d
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by thg 9y ago
You stated that the US government never supported Hitler and I disproved that by mentioning but a single name. You got me with Roosevelt, though. I merely mentioned him for completeness sake, not to single him out. That was badly worded on
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by thg 9y ago
> The US government never supported Hitler. Breckinridge Long is the very first name to prove that wrong. He was the US Secretary of State at the time Hitler was in power and gave Henry Ford permission to buy Nazi tanks while purposely
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by thg 9y ago
It's more like "play by our rules and do what we tell you or we will bomb you". The US isn't the global peacekeeper, the US is the main instigator for wars. Planting and supporting dictators and authoritarian regimes who
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by thg 9y ago
If you haven't already, it can't hurt adding your sending domain to https://www.dnswl.org
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by thg 9y ago
Or it could be the US that wants you to believe it's Russia. Or any other nation, organization or group that wants to frame Russia. Without any evidence, it's nothing but pure speculation and rumor-mongering.
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by thg 9y ago
I wonder how many competitors and established providers were driven out of the market because of Google's practice. This fine isn't nearly enough, as Google will have earned much more than that and stands to earn a lot more in the
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by thg 9y ago
This is a problem deeply routed in society. Men are seen as the strong hunters and protectors that have to take care of their family in physical ways and women are seen as the subordinates that stay home and take care of the kids and their
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Scientists urge U.N. to ban nuclear weapons(futurism.com)
3 points by thg 9y ago|1 comments
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Former US spy chief calls for 'filtering' of social media(cnet.com)
3 points by thg 9y ago|0 comments

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